While we’re closed, you may still drop off items in our book drops or use the library catalogs to place holds, check your library card, or renew items. The library’s databases will also remain accessible with your library card while we’re closed. These resources can be accessed through our website bristollib.com.

The lower level meeting rooms of the Main Library will remain open to the public from 5:00 to 9:00 PM this Friday, July 19th. Please use the side door off of the library’s circle drive after our normal closing time of 5:00 PM to get to the lower level. The upper two levels of the Library, with its collections and regular services, will not be available after 5:00 PM.

At 6:30, we will be showing a PG movie from 2013, about a small-time circus magician who finds “over the rainbow” adventure dealing with three witches and the inhabitants of a land that’s far, far away from Kansas. (Want to be sure of the title of the film? Please call 860-584-7787 ext. 2017.)

Free popcorn, courtesy of the Friends of the Bristol Public Library, and ice-water will be available from 5:00 to 9:00 PM.

Bristol Public Library and its branch, F.N. Manross Memorial, will be closed Thursday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day. The Library and its branch will resume normal hours on Friday, July 5.

While we’re closed, you may still drop off items in our book drops or use the library catalogs to place holds, check your library card, or renew items. The libraries’ databases will also remain accessible with your valid Bristol library card while we’re closed. These resources can be accessed through our website bristollib.com.

The Friends of the Bristol Public Library will be having a USED BOOK SALE on the lower level of the Main Library:
Friday, June 14th from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Saturday, June 15th from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
BAG SALE: Saturday, June 15th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM
Stock up for your summer reading! There will be reasonably priced books for adults, young adults and children; of fiction and non-fiction; and in hardcover and softcover.